Submitted

Editor
of The New Yorker to contribute
to NBC's Opening Ceremony coverage and offer commentary for NBC News

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick, editor of The
New Yorker magazine, will join NBCUniversal's coverage of the 2014 Olympic
Winter Games in Sochi, it was announced today.

Remnick, the former Moscow bureau chief for The
Washington Post, will contribute to NBC's coverage of the Opening Ceremony and
will offer commentary for NBC News in Sochi.

"David is a distinguished journalist who knows
Russia very well, and we're excited to have his expertise on the host country
for our Sochi coverage," said Jim Bell, executive producer of NBC Olympics.

Remnick joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in
1992 and was named editor in 1998. Under his leadership, The New Yorker has won
33 National Magazine Awards.

In 1994, Remnick earned a Pulitzer Prize in
nonfiction and the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism for his book "Lenin's
Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire."

Remnick began his reporting career at The Washington
Post in 1982 where he first covered the United States Football League, before
becoming the Post's Moscow bureau chief in 1988. He has received numerous
honors, including his selection as Advertising Age's 2000 Editor of the Year,
and a 1997 National Magazine Award nomination for his New Yorker article "Kid
Dynamite Blows Up" about boxer Mike Tyson.

A graduate of Princeton, Remnick has authored
several books, including "The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories," "Resurrection:
The Struggle for a New Russia," "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise
of an American Hero," "Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker" and "The
Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama."